I’d been trying for awhile to find the perfect song to link with Elle Casey’s anniversary promotion, and I found it just in the nick of time (Thanks to Janette Rallison’s blog.)

So, what’s the deal with Elle Casey’s anniversary. Well, she generously put together a promotion of indie authors and their books — over seventy books to be exact — to celebrate the publication of her first book one year ago. That’s some seriously good karma. Readers can enter to win in here. Some are paperbacks, most are e-books, and you’ll need to read the fine print if you care about which is which.

I’ve read, or intend to read, a number of these. The list below is by no means comprehensive, but only meant to give you a feel for what’s available over at Elle’s site.

Certainly, I’ve left authors off this list and there’s no ill will or editorializing about it. There’s just no way to mention every single book or author that’s participating in Elle’s ginormous promotion, so here’s the link, again. And now for this silly, but widely viewed video. Apologies if you’ve already see it.

Kicking off another week of interviews with ME Purfield. It’s gonna be a short intro today because my to-do list is more monstrous than normal. So here’s a description of ME’s book Party Girl Crashes the Rapture. From the description it sounds like an interesting older YA read.

It’s Lorelei’s last year of school and she has no plans for the future. Well, she does plan to drink, smoke weed, bang boys, and get as far away from her abusive mother as possible. What else is there to do in a small New Jersey town?

But when the seizures start, Lorelei enters a Technicolor dream world where she meets a pink-eyed little girl named Darby. She has something important to tell Lorelei. Something about a murder.

Lorelei doesn’t want to deal with Darby and does all she can to forget about her. She even goes as far as finding love and a possible future. But Darby is persistent, so persistent that she starts breaking into Lorelei’s reality.

Now she must solve a murder and face a dark secret in her past that could reveal a truth so horrifying that death could be the only way to forget it.

Okay, Grace. I gotta run. Sorry about the quick hand-off.

Sheesh! That’s like the lousiest intro ever.

Hiya, ME! I promise it’ll get better from here. It sure can’t get any worse, right? Now your Muse must be doing a great job inspiring you. What’s the next project they’re helping you out on?

Muse? What Muse? The only Muse I know is Throwing Muses, kid. Anyway *sideway glance* I’m writing a second book in my Miki Radicci series. The first one will be out in May this year. Just another adventure of a 16 year old girl who’s a famous artists and also has the psychic ability to experience other’s pain and death. And you know, she solves mysteries. *yawn*

Omigosh, why are you yawning? Psychic abilities and mystery sound exciting to me. And I’m curious too—are you like Miki or one of your other characters?

What? Listen, if you are writing your characters as yourself, then you better be writing a memoir or something. But since you’re looking at me like (yeah baby) then I’ll say Joni Corso, the lesbian No Wave guitarist who is the protagonist in Breaking Fellini. Except I’m not a girl, or a lesbian, or a guitarist. I think.

Hmmm…I’m one of those; two tops. But I also feel compelled to point out to you that I’m not a writer. I AM A CHARACTER. Sorry for yelling.

Even more in common! Yay! So, what themes do you write about or what do you want readers to take from your books?

I would hope that readers hate my main characters in some way in the beginning, but by the end find some kind of connection and respect towards them for what they went through. People should be like books. We should work past first impressions and really dig into getting to know and understand them over time.

100% agree. And, that’s sort of how this interview has gone, ME. Last question, now that we are respecting each other and everything. Is there anything you’d like me to mention to your Guardian Angel?

Yeah. Tell her to get off my back and give me my monkey. I miss that little guy.

Sorry, she’s not gonna do that, but maybe if you dig in and really get to know her….

Hey Everyone, ME is an onion-y kind of guy (the layer thing) and I bet his book Party Girl Crashes the Rapture is like that too! Here’s where you can find it: